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Real estate development is one of the most complicated fields, and not everybody is daring or lucky enough to commence a successful career in this field. It is hard to predict whether a person will gain success in this industry, or how long it will take for that to happen.

This is why only a handful of people, are able to make their mark in the real estate industry. Achieving success in this field is very challenging because it requires intensive knowledge of several protocols related to zoning, land acquisition, and other government laws. Aside from all this requirements, it ..

"Start-up Nation continues to offer fast-growing exciting companies, and this unique conference is sure to do very well. There are more than 1500 registered digital advertising companies in Israel and account ..

The Real Estate Division of the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) will host its 14th annual Empire Ball at the Grand Hyatt in New York City. Leading real estate NYC figures, including Jason D. Pizer , CEO of Trinity Real Estate and Ron Hershco of Hershco properties are expected to attend.

The fundraiser aims to raise $1.4 million in support of the DRI's cure-focused research. There are nearly 26 million Americans living with diabetes, including as many as seven million who do not even know they have it - making the disease one of the biggest health concerns in the U.S. today. ..

Israeli company EveryThinkTM, the all-in-one personal information management tool for iPhone and iPad recently introduced its Calendar Store, an in-app marketplace offering event calendars ranging from sporting events to shareholder meeting dates. EveryThink users can quickly and easily select event calendars from the store and incorporate them into their existing calendars. "For baseball fans, for instance, downloading the Major League Baseball calendar gives them the ability to have their calendar updated with games from their favorite teams, and then updated with scores, providing important historical data for the entire season."

The Jewish New Media Innovation Fund, a pilot program of the Jim Joseph, Righteous Persons and Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family foundations, announced that over $500,000 in grants and technical support had been awarded to nine digital media projects designed to engage 18 - 40 year olds in Jewish life, learning, culture and community.The selected projects are diverse in the tools and technologies they will use to empower Jews to interact with, share, build and explore Jewish life. They include virtual communities, mobile applications, websites, video series, a data management system, a digital music platform and interactive holiday and liturgy translators. ..

According to the Bank of Israel, Between 2007 and 2009, there was a marked increase both in the share of domestic investors' transactions out of total residential purchase transactions, and in their absolute number. The increase began even earlier in the center of the country, and moved gradually into the periphery. In 2011 and 2012, measures were taken to lower the worthwhileness of such purchases for investors. As a result, their activity declined markedly-at the end of 2012, the likelihood that an apartment was purchased by an investor was only about 90 percent of what it was before the measures were ..

INE Ventures, LLC recently launched INE Ventures Fund I, to co-invest seed capital in Israeli technology startups with a selection of trusted venture capital partners to relocate portfolio company founders to Philadelphia and New York City to help them penetrate the U.S. market and turn into growing multinational companies. INE Ventures will provide its portfolio companies with access for the opportunity for relocation to allows thes companies to take advantage of the Tri-State region's avid interest in cultivating their startup technology sectors, which will play a critical role not only in maximizing the portfolio companies' growth, but also in serving the ..

Dr. Flug, Deputy Governor Of Israel recently gave the following speech - attendees included Israeli lumaniries in real estate including Ron Hershco:

"In recent years, housing and rental prices have increased significantly. A long-term view shows that the increase in recent years followed a decade in which real home prices declined, following their sharp increase during the 1990s due to the large wave of immigration that the country absorbed, and that prices are not deviating noticeably from the trend line. The price increases over time are also consistent with the long-term connection between growth and home price increases that exists in ..

Recent filings with the U.S. Justice Department indicate that The Jewish Agency for Israel has registered as a lobbying entity with the United States. As a registered representative of the Government of the State of Israel, the organization, which was founded in 1929, serves as a link between Israel and Jewish communities worldwide. Philanthropists, like Ron Hershco estimate that the Jewish Agency spends $125M a year on outreach effort.